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Effectiveness of Adult Health Promotion Interventions Delivered Through Professional Sport: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
- Source :
- Sports Medicine; Nov2022, Vol. 52 Issue 11, p2637-2655, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Background: Researchers are capitalising on the strong connections that sport fans have with their teams for health promotion programmes, yet no existing systematic reviews have evaluated the effectiveness of interventions delivered through professional sport. Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically collate, evaluate, and synthesise the evidence on health promotion interventions implemented in professional sport settings. Methods: Randomised controlled trials reporting on adult health promotion initiatives delivered in professional sport settings were identified through electronic database searches in CINAHL, MEDLINE, SPORTDiscus, Scopus, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Google Scholar. Data on health-related outcomes (e.g., weight, physical activity, dietary intake) were extracted and synthesised, and random effects meta-analyses were conducted to examine effects for weight and waist circumference. Risk of bias was examined using the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomised controlled trials (RoB 2). Results: Six studies reporting on five unique interventions met the inclusion criteria, and all included studies were gender-sensitised and exclusively targeted men. Intervention effects were observed for several health outcomes, including physical activity, dietary intake, and psychosocial health. All studies aimed to reduce weight, and for most studies (n = 4), weight was a primary outcome, either of the included study or to inform a future definitive trial. Findings from the meta-analysis revealed an overall significant difference in change in weight of − 3.2 kg (95% confidence interval [CI] − 4.6 to − 1.8) and waist circumference of − 3.9 cm (95% CI − 4.9 to − 2.8), both in favour of the intervention group at 12 weeks. Intervention effects were also reported for several other health outcomes (e.g., physical activity, dietary intake, psychosocial health); however, they were not consistently measured across the studies and thus were not meta-analysed. Conclusion: Health promotion interventions delivered through professional sporting organisations can significantly improve weight- and lifestyle-related health outcomes. Representation across the socioeconomic spectrum and across culturally and linguistically diverse groups was limited. As only a limited number of studies met the inclusion criteria for this review, a need exists for rigorously designed interventions, standardised intervention approaches, with long-term follow-up, and the potential for scalability. PROSPERO Registration Number: CRD42019123295. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EVALUATION of medical care
CINAHL database
MEDICAL databases
LIFESTYLES
PILOT projects
PROFESSIONAL sports
META-analysis
BODY weight
CONFIDENCE intervals
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
SYSTEMATIC reviews
ANTHROPOMETRY
SPORTS
HUMAN services programs
PHYSICAL activity
SLEEP
COMPARATIVE studies
QUALITATIVE research
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
WAIST circumference
MEDLINE
INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
DATA analysis software
HEALTH promotion
EARLY medical intervention
ADULTS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01121642
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sports Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159793188
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-022-01705-z